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The push to drive ISIL out of Mosul is now underway, already the media are announcing that the Iraqi Army has liberated the Assyrian city of Nimrod south of Mosul. I assume we will be getting videos of the damage done within the next few days. Nineveh will be coming up soon too. The advance to Mosul continues. Up to 1.5 million people are believed to still be living in Mosul.read more

ISIL video shows destruction of Mosul artefacts The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has released a video showing its fighters using sledgehammers to smash ancient artefacts in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul. The fiv...

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment The Iraqi government has announced that the campaign to take the large northern city of Mosul back from Islamic State has begun in earnest. So what is the significance of Mosul as a city?